Table of Contents
Foreword Reconceptualizing Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement,
Randy Bomer Introduction, Kathleen A. Hinchman and Donna E. Alvermann
Part I: Understanding Youth’s Everyday Literacies
1. Touchstone Chapter: Playing for Real: Texts and the Performance of Identity, Lorri Nielsen
2. Becoming Life-Long Readers: Insights from a Comic Book Reader, Stergios G. Botzakis
3. Low-Income Youth’s (Public) Internet Practices in South America: Potential Lessons for Educators in the U.S. and Other Post-Industrial Nations, Eliane Rubinstein-Avila
4. Teacher Response: Lessons Learned from Young People’s Everyday Literacies, Anne Bulcher and Margaret Moran
Part II: Integrating Everyday and Academic Literacies
5. Touchstone Chapter: “Struggling” Adolescents’ Engagement in Mulitmediating: Countering the Institutional Construction of Incompetence, David O’Brien
6. Thinking with Forensic Science: A Content Analysis of Forensic Comic Books and Graphic Novels, Barbara Guzzetti & Marcia Mardis
7. Reclaiming and Rebuilding the Writer Identities of Black Adolescent Males, Marcelle M. Haddix
8. Teacher Response: Bridging Everyday Literacies with Academic Literacy, McKenzie Weaver
Part III: Addressing Sociocultural and Identity Issues in Adolescents’ Literacy Lives
9. Touchstone Chapter: Exploring Race, Language, and Culture in Critical Literacy Classrooms, Bob Fecho, Bette Davis and Renee Moore 1
0. Re-Writing the Stock Stories of Urban Adolescents: Autobiography as a Social and Performative Practice at the InterSections of Identities, Kelly Wissman and Lalitha Vasudevan
11. “In This Little Town Nothing Much Ever Happens, But Someday Something Will”: Reading Young Adult Literature from the Blue Ridge Foothills, Gay Ivey
12. Teacher Response: Addressing Sociocultural and Identity Issues in Adolescents’ Literacy Lives, Justin Claypool and George White
Part IV: Changing Teachers, Teaching Changes
13. Touchstone Chapter: Adolescents’ Multiple Identities and Teacher Professional Development, Alfred W. Tatum
14. Reconceptualizing Together: Exploring Participatory and Productive Critical Media Literacies in a Collaborative Teacher Research Group, Eli Tucker-Raymond,Daisy Torres-Petrovich,Keith Dumbleton and Ellen Damlich
15. Baby Steps toward Web 1.5: Middle School Teachers’ Personal Learning and Explorations of Pop Culture and Digital Literacy Tools for Classroom Literacy Instruction, Margaret C. Hagood
16. Teacher Response: Professional Development to Reconceptualize Literacy Instruction, Maryanne Desmond Barrett and Elizabeth G. Mascia
Afterword, Donna E. Alvermann and Kathleen A. Hinchman
Contributors Index